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should be reduced to the Smallest xDroportions ; nothing which will 

 well go m the orderly sequence of the text should be put iu them. 

 Here some of the most interesting and important researches are 

 only to be found in long foot-notes, often extending from one page 

 to another. The descriptions of the figures, which should have 

 been placed beneath them, are also in foot-notes in a slightly 

 different type to the others ; the whole resulting in a very confused 

 arrangement. 



The remarks on nomenclature and synonymy are admirable, 

 and fully in accord with the principles which have been advocated 

 here by Mr. Bentham and others. We have also a very full 

 glossary of fifty pages, which forms an index to the volume. 



The whole work is contemplated to occupy four volumes, of 

 which Prof. Goodale has undertaken that on Histology and 

 Physiology, and Prof. Farlow an introduction to Cryptogamous 

 Botany, whilst Prof. Gray himself " may rather hope than expect" 

 to draw up the fourth on the Natural Orders of Phanerogamous 

 Plants. May the hope be fulfilled ! H. T. 



Floral Dissections. Illustrative of Typical Genera of the British 

 Natural Orders. Lithographed by the Rev. G. Henslow, M.A., 

 F.L.S., &c. 1879. (London, E. Stanford.) 

 This is intended for students beginning to work at the Natural 

 Orders, and its object is to assist them to arrive at an accurate 

 comprehension of structural Botany. With this view very 

 numerous figures of the parts of the flower of several leading 

 genera of 77 Natural Families have been closely arranged in 

 eight long quarto plates, accompanied by twenty pages of short 

 descriptions. There is, no doubt, a great deal of information 

 com^n-essed into a small compass here ; but the plan adoj)ted does 

 not appear to be a good one. The figures are too small generally 

 (they are drawn to no scale), too closely crowded, and in many 

 cases not very clearly expressed. The Umbelliferae and Grasses, 

 for example, cannot be considered to be satisfactorily treated : a 

 few large clear figures would be of more use to the student. A 

 good and full series of figures of the genera of British plants, 

 somewhat on the plan, or even more extended, -of Gray's ' Genera 

 of the United States '. or Nees' ' Genera Florae Germanics ' (from 

 which latter many of the figures in the present book are copied), — 

 both, unfortunately, unfinished works, — is still a real desideratum. 



H. T. 



The ' Eeport of the Botanical Locality Record Club' for 1878 

 contains the usual list of "new" county records {i.e., new in the 

 sense of not having been previously printed in Mr. Watson's books 

 or these Reports), and various notes on British species. To a 

 considerable extent these refer to the same specimens as the 

 Exchange Club Report, of which we reprint extracts in the present 

 number. The Rev. A. Ley reports of Dromus Benekeni — which he 

 finds in three counties, Monmouth, Hereford, and York north-west 

 — that it flowers about a week before B. serotinus, keex)s its 



